Hog Hunt

Hogs run wild: Politician Frank Mann on hunt for pork (pigs that is). The Lee County commissioner searches for wild pig on 2,600-acres in Hendry County.

T.J. Mann, the great nephew of Frank Mann, climbs under a barbed wire fence to retrace where he and his cousin think they may have shot a pig. T.J. hunts pigs on the 2,600-acres his family leases in Hendry County. Lexey Swall/Staff

TJ Mann, right, 12, the great-nephew of Frank Mann, and Campbell Mann, left, 10, the grandson of Frank Mann, stand with with the first pig TJ ever shot in December of 2008. The wild hog weighed 314 pounds and was shot on the land the family leases in Hendry County. Photo courtesy of Richard Loller. Lexey Swall/Staff

The remains of a wild pig lay on the land where Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann and a dozen others share a 2,600-acre hunting lease in Hendry County. After hunting the pigs and taking their meat, the hunters leave their remains for vultures to pick off of. There are an estimated 500,000 wild pigs in Florida and they can be hunted year round. Lexey Swall/Staff

The remains of a wild pig lay on the land where Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann and a dozen others share a 2,600-acre hunting lease in Hendry County. After hunting the pigs and taking their meat, the hunters leave their remains for vultures to pick off of. There are an estimated 500,000 wild pigs in Florida and they can be hunted year round. Lexey Swall/Staff

Frank Mann drives his 1948 Willy's jeep on land he leases, mostly for turkey hunting, from Florida agri-giant Alico. This day Mann is searching for wild hogs and he can tell they have been in this location by the way ground has been rooted by the animal. Lexey Swall/Staff

Frank Mann, looks out over land where he and a dozen others share a 2,600-acre hunting lease in Hendry County. Mann guesses he's shot close to 30 pigs in his 68 years. Born and raised in and around Fort Myers, Mann currently serves as a Lee County commissioner and has served the area in Tallahassee as a state representative and state senator. Lexey Swall/Staff

Frank Mann guesses he's shot close to 30 pigs in his 68 years. Born and raised in and around Fort Myers, Mann currently serves as a Lee County commissioner and has served the area in Tallahassee as a state representative and state senator. Mann was bouncing around in a 1948 Willy's jeep on land he leases, mostly for turkey hunting, from Florida agri-giant Alico. Lexey Swall/Staff

Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann shows the area of land that his family and others lease from Florida agriculture company, Alico. The Mann family has used the land to hunt turkey, deer and wild pig since Mann was a child. Lexey Swall/Staff

Campbell Mann, 11, from left, Ted Mann and T.J. Mann, 13, search for a pig that Campbell shot at but wasn't sure he hit Saturday on land that the Mann family leases with others in Hendry County. Lexey Swall/Staff

The remains of a wild pig lay on the land where Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann and a dozen others share a 2,600-acre hunting lease in Hendry County. After hunting the pigs and taking their meat, the hunters leave their remains for vultures to pick off of. There are an estimated 500,000 wild pigs in Florida and they can be hunted year round. Lexey Swall/Staff

Fresh pig tracks mark the ground where the wild animals have roamed in Hendry County. An estimated 500,000 pigs live in Florida. Lexey Swall/Staff